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FinCEN: Guidance on Preparing a Complete & Sufficient SAR Narrative, 33 pp. (2003)

This guide is intended to educate SAR filers on how to organize and write narrative details that maximizes the value of each SAR form by:

  • using a simple methodology for evaluating and reporting information for the SAR narrative and why it is important;
  • providing a general guideline on how to organize the SAR narrative so that critical details are concise and follow a logical order of presentation; and
  • providing respective industries with examples of sufficient and insufficient SAR narratives.